Car-door



(No Model.)

u rEUBANK.

CAR DOOR.

No. 434,923. Patented Aug. 26, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS EUBANK, OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.

CAR-Doon.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent N0. 434,923, dated August 26, 1890.

Application filed April l2, 1890. Serial No. 347,712. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS EUBANK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Little Rock, in the county of Pulaski and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and useful Car-Door, of which the following is a speciiication.

The invention relates to improvements in car-doors.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive car-door adapted to be readily opened and closed without liability of becoming displaced or lthrown from the supporting-track and capable of eX- cluding dust and cinders.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement ot' parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a car provided with a door constructed in accordance with this in vention and showing the door closed. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view showing the door partially open and illustrating the beveled stop or strip in elevation.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates the side of a car provided with the usual door-opening 2, and having vertical strips or stops 3 and 4 arranged at each side of the opening 2 and adapted, when the sliding door 5 is closed, to exclude dust and dirt and cinders, and especially the latter, when the ca'r is in motion. The sliding dooris provided at its upper edge with hangers 6, that engage a rail or metal strip 7, secured along the top of the car above the door. The vertical strip 4, arranged upon the right-hand side of the opening 2, is reversely beveled and has a short bevel 8 near its upper end, and the other portion 9 is gradually inclined or beveled, and in order to enable the door to pass the beveled stop or strip 4 and be open, it is constructed of two sections 10 and 11, hinged together and having theiradjacent r edges 12 beveled to permit the section to be swung out to produce a bulging of the'door sufiicient to pass the strip 4. The upper section 10 is less in width than the section 11, and conforms, when the door is swung outward, to the inclination of the bevel 8. The lower edge of the door is'loosely engaged bybrackets 13, that prevent the door swinging out too far. Secured to the upper section is a bar 14, which has its lower end arranged Within easy reach, and when the bar is pulled outward the sections are bulgcd out sufficiently to clear the beveled strip 4, and the door may then slide on the track to open or close the car; and in order to maintain the door in a 'closed position and to prevent it being accidentally opened or closed, the bar is arranged in a keeper l5, which is provided with regising-perforations 16, through which passes a pin 17, that confines the bar in the back of the keeper and prevents the door being swung out on its hinges to clear the beveled strip. The door is also held in its closed position by pins 18, that engage perforations 19 in the brackets 13, that are arranged beneath the opening 2, and the said pins 17 and 18 are secured to the door by chains 2O and 21, which prevent the pins being lost. The door is prevented sliding from the rack and beingv opened too far by a stop 22, that consists of a metal knee secured near the upper edge of the car and arranged beneath the track.

It will be seen that the sliding door is simple and inexpensive 4in construction, and adapted to be readily opened and closed without liability of becoming displaced from its position on the track or rail, and is capable of securely closing the opening 2 and excluding dust and cinders.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination of a car having the opening 2 and provided with vertical strips arranged at each side of the opening, and the sliding door constructed of hinged sections and adapted to be swung or bulged outward to clear one'of the strips, substantially as and for the purpose described. f

2. The combination of the car having the opening 2 and provided with the strip 3 arranged at one side of the opening and the oppositely-beveled strip 4 arranged at the opposite side of the opening, and the sliding door, consisting of the sections 10 and 11", hinged together and adapted to be bulged IOO outward to clear the beveled strip 4, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3.*The combination of the car having the opening 2 and the strips 3 and 4 arranged upon opposite Sides of the opening, the slidlng door, composed of hinged sections and adapted to be swung outward between its ends to clear the strip 4, the bar 14, secured to the upper section, the keeper 15, mounted upon the lower section and receiving' the bar 14, and the pin adapted to eonne the bar 14 in the keeperand prevent the sections swinging, substantially as described.

4. The combination ot' the ear provided with the opening 2, the strips 3 and 4 arranged upon opposite sides of the opening,

the track 7, the brackets 13, arranged beneath the opening, the Sliding door provided with hangers engaging the track 7 and being, composed ot' hinged sections 10 and 1l and adapted to be bulged or swung outward,

and the pins 18, connected by chains 21 with the sliding door and adapted to engage perforations 19 in the brackets, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as niy own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOS. EUBANK.

Witnesses:

B. S. J oHNsoN, FRANCIS JOHNSON. 

